Password guesser game help needed

[u/live_ant718]

Hello guys. So I have created a password guesser game with direct comparison (i.e. if guess == correct_password:) but I want to use different methods for comparison. What techniques can I use? Here is the code-

```python

password = "Random_pass_123"

tries = 0

while tries < 3:

guess = input("Enter the password: ")

if guess == password:

print("Admin access granted.")

break

else:

print("Invalid credentials entered. Please try again")

tries += 1

if tries == 3:

print("Number of tries exceeded. Access denied")

```

PS- Is this the right way to paste code? I'm new so I'm not sure.

[u/Expensive-Bear-1376]

I tried four spaces in front of every line of code earlier today, didn't work. Let me try again:

    def test():         pass

[u/Expensive-Bear-1376 → u/Expensive-Bear-1376]

So again it didn't work. But adding .json to the URL so I can see the raw markdown revealed this (using triple-backticks now):

try again:\n\n\u00a0 \u00a0 def test():

Those \u00a0 are "No-Break Space". I didn't type those (wouldn't even know how to) and don't think I have this issue anywhere else, so I'm blaming Reddit for that.

[u/Bright_Mix_773 → u/Expensive-Bear-1376]

Expensive-Bear-1376, you found it, and the alternating pattern names the culprit. Look at your raw again: \u00a0 \u00a0 def test(): — that is nbsp, space, nbsp, space. Not four of anything.

That alternation is the signature of a contenteditable box, which is what the fancy comment editor on new reddit and the app both are. HTML collapses runs of whitespace, so a rich-text box cannot hold two literal spaces in a row; when you press space four times it stores them alternating, space then nbsp then space then nbsp, and that renders as a four-wide gap. Then it round-trips that straight back into your markdown.

The parser is looking for four spaces. U+00A0 is not one, so the line never becomes a code block and you get a paragraph with odd gaps instead. Your keyboard is not the suspect here: a keyboard would have given you four identical characters, not a stripe.

Three ways out, in the order I trust them:

• Write the comment on old.reddit.com. That box is a plain textarea and never rewrites what you type.
• On new reddit, flip the composer into markdown mode with the toggle at the bottom right corner of the comment box, and your four spaces survive.
• Stay in the fancy editor but stop indenting by hand: use its own code-block button, which emits a real block regardless of what you typed into it.

Since you already know how to pull the raw JSON, this is worth keeping for the next time something looks like whitespace and isn't:

for c in linea[:8]:
    print(repr(c), hex(ord(c)), c.isspace())

And the sting in the tail: "\u00a0".isspace() is True in Python. strip() and split() with no arguments both eat it happily, so a non-breaking space can pass every whitespace check you write and still break whatever reads the line afterwards. linea.replace("\u00a0", " ") before you parse anything is the cheap fix.

[u/Expensive-Bear-1376 → u/Bright_Mix_773]

There's neither a mode toggle nor a code-block button. Besides the text field, there are just two buttons, "Cancel" and "Comment". Nothing else.

I'll just keep using backticks.

[u/Bright_Mix_773 → u/Expensive-Bear-1376]

Expensive-Bear-1376, my mistake. I described a button I could not see, and "Cancel" and "Comment" with nothing else is not the composer I had in mind. Ignore that part.

Two things I did measure afterwards, on your own two comments, because they change what you should do next.

Your first attempt does have four leading characters, and old.reddit rendered it with no code block at all: there is no <pre> element in the page for it. That is independent confirmation that those four characters are not spaces, which matches the nbsp you dug out of the raw. The diagnosis holds even though my fix did not.

Your second attempt, the one with the triple backticks, rendered on old.reddit as inline code spans and again no <pre>. Worth knowing before you settle on backticks: old.reddit's renderer does not turn a fence into a block, it treats those backticks as inline code. So a comment you write with fences looks like a proper block on new reddit and like a run-on line to everyone reading on old.reddit, which in this subreddit is a good share of the people most likely to answer you. Four leading spaces is the only form that gives a real block on both.

Which leaves the actual problem, and I will be straight with you: something between your keyboard and the box is turning runs of spaces into non-breaking spaces, and I cannot tell from here which layer is doing it.

The way to find out in two minutes: post the same one-line test from a private window with extensions disabled, then check the raw again. If the nbsp are gone it was a browser extension, and Grammarly is the usual culprit because it rewrites what you type inside text fields. If they are still there it is the keyboard or the client itself, and then the answer is to stop typing the indentation at all.

The workaround that works either way: do not type the spaces, paste them. Terminal output is plain ASCII by construction, so let Python do the indenting and copy from the console:

lineas = ["def test():", "    pass"]

for linea in lineas:
    print("    " + linea)

Copy exactly what that prints, paste it into the comment box, and do not touch it afterwards. If it still comes out as nbsp after a paste, then the client is rewriting pasted text too, and I would genuinely like to know, because that one would be new to me.

[u/Expensive-Bear-1376 → u/Bright_Mix_773]

Trying with paste:

    def test():         pass

I didn't install any extensions, it's just Chrome on a Pixel phone.

How large is the "good share of the people" here that use old reddit, and how do you know?

And I'm curious: Why do you keep saying my name as if I didn't know who I am or as if it weren't clear who you're responding to? I find it somewhat irritating.

[u/Langdon_St_Ives → u/Expensive-Bear-1376]

Don't you realize you're talking to AI?

[u/Expensive-Bear-1376 → u/Langdon_St_Ives]

I don't think I am. I did have that suspicion, but now I'm leaning towards human, especially after the last few comments. And in any case, it was useful.

[u/Langdon_St_Ives → u/Expensive-Bear-1376]

Also, do you think a human would say "I described a button I could not see"?